If the .a is made of other .a files, extract the objects from the later.
OPTS=${ALTOPTS}
fi
rm -f ${LIBNAME}
+
+ # expand any .a objects into constituent .o files.
+ NEWOBJECTS=""
+ DELETIA=""
+ for OBJ in ${OBJECTS} ; do
+ if [ `expr match $OBJ '.*\.a'` -gt 0 ] ; then
+ # extract the .o files from this .a archive
+ FILES=`ar t $OBJ`
+ ar x $OBJ
+ NEWOBJECTS="$NEWOBJECTS $FILES"
+ # keep track of temporary .o files and delete them below
+ DELETIA="$DELETIA $FILES"
+ else
+ # ordinary .o file
+ NEWOBJECTS="$NEWOBJECTS $OBJ"
+ fi
+ done
+
# make lib
- ${LINK} ${OPTS} ${LIBNAME} ${OBJECTS}
+ ${LINK} ${OPTS} ${LIBNAME} ${NEWOBJECTS}
ranlib ${LIBNAME}
+
+ # remove temporary extracted .o files
+ rm -f ${DELETIA}
+
# finish up
FINAL_LIBS=${LIBNAME}
else